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Light periwinkle

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Light periwinkle (#C5CBE1) is a light cool shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Clarence Gagnon, Uemura Shoen, and Claude Monet and the Impressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Bone (#E3DAC9), Khaki (#C3B091), and Shadow (#8A795D). The combination forms an airy, hazy chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Place of Mahatma's camp. District Kuku-Nor. palette card
Place of Mahatma's camp. District Kuku-Nor.
Nicholas Roerich · 1928
Flowers in a Glass palette card
Flowers in a Glass
Henri-Edmond Cross · 1904
Springtime palette card
Springtime
Alfred Sisley · 1889
View of the Beach at Beverly Massachusetts palette card
View of the Beach at Beverly Massachusetts
John Frederick Kensett
The Lagoon 1 palette card
The Lagoon 1
Henri Matisse · 1943
Harvesters palette card
Harvesters
Henri Martin

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light periwinkle

6 palettes where Light periwinkle appears prominently — one per artist.

Uemura Shoen Palette 4 - Silvery Nimbus

Uemura Shoen

30.5% Light periwinkle

Nihonga Palette 1 - Silvery Nimbus

Nihonga

30.5% Light periwinkle

bijinga Palette 2 - Silvery Nimbus

bijinga

30.5% Light periwinkle

Claude Monet Palette 3 - Effulgent Haze

Claude Monet

24.1% Light periwinkle

John Henry Twachtman Palette 4 - Celestial Alabaster

John Henry Twachtman

23.9% Light periwinkle

François-Joseph Navez Palette 1 - Dimmed Stone

François-Joseph Navez

23.6% Light periwinkle

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